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September 7, 2015

So no doubt many of you might have seen the new Pixar move, Inside Out. Or maybe Minions? Well, after hearing a lot about Inside Out, and knowing nothing about it, I finally went to see it a weekend or…

November 15, 2014

On the weekend, I saw Interstellar. Although I am a fan of Christopher Nolan (most recent Batman movies, Inception), I had pretty low expectations that I would enjoy it, because: I’m not really a fan of space movies; I’m not…

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Literary Tradition: Adapting the Italian Novella: Romeo and Juliet is NOT an original story. Romeo and Juliet comes from a tradition of tragic romances: The Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses Mariotto and Gianozza by Masuccio Salernitano (1476) Luigi da Porto adapted…